After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Quotations
Music
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
